


Interestingly, in neither Hepburn nor Viertel’s account does CS Forester feature. Forester 0 Ratings 10 Want to read 0 Currently reading 2 Have read Overview View 19 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date 1994 Publisher G. His account in both film and book are under the title White Hunter, Black Heart. An edition of The African Queen (1935) The African Queen by C. This by Peter Viertel who tidied up the script of the film and tried to keep Huston on the straight and narrow. And in case you weren’t aware there is another book and film of the time leading up to the making of The African Queen. Katherine Hepburn wrote of her experiences of the filming in The Making of the African Queen or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost my Mind (and I see there’s a Youtube version too). The film released in 1964 has its own story to tell. The events he writes about in the book happened when he was 16 years old.

His only book on World War 1 Africa is The African Queen inspired by a poster he saw in a London tube station after his agent pressured him to write something again. I’ve written on this before, there being numerous versions of the story with the book having more on the actual campaign than the film. Postage is reduced on multiple orders. Forester’s most well-known World War One story is The African Queen, the film rather than the book. Published by Penguin rpt.1968 : (Over 30 other books by this author also available.) Format: paperback.
